Flight operations at Torokina Air Strip, Bougainville Island during World War 2. An airman refuels the drop tank on a P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft. He closes the lid of the fuel tank. Airmen place the hose back on fuel truck.. Brief glimpse of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) F4U Corsair aircraft taxiing past. A United States Army Air Forces Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft taxiing.
Commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) William C. Westmoreland arrives at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. William C. Westmoreland arrives in a Beechcraft U-8F aircraft. He disembarks from the aircraft. He is greeted by Phan Rang Air Base Commander Colonel Lewis R Riley, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) Commander Colonel James A. Wilson, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) No. 2 Squadron Commander and members of 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. William C. Westmoreland leaves the base in a staff car.
Cheering Cuban crowds seen celebrating Fidel Castro's successful overthrow of Batista, in 1959, in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev outside Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City, before meetings at the United Nations building in New York City, during the opening of the 15th General Assembly (September 19, 1960). View of Castro walking in front of UN building entrance. View of Soviet Navy ships carrying missiles from Cuba, back to the Soviet Union, in 1962. Nikita Khrushchev gesturing and talking outside a building. Newspaper photograph of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko conversing with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who is seated in his rocking chair at the White House.
Activities during Cuban Missile Crisis in the United States. U.S. Government officials arriving at the White House in Washington DC to address the Cuban missile crisis. CIA Director John McCone and Vice President Lyndon Johnson seen arriving at the White House. President John F. Kennedy addresses the American people on October 22, 1962, announcing discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba and imposing a U.S. naval "quarantine" on Cuba. Animation showing areas of naval quarantine. The U.S. Capitol in a night time view. Night view of the State Department Building and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Interior views in the Pentagon show offices and signs for Office of Secretary of Air Force; Office of U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff; Office of Chief of Naval Operations; Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Office of the Secretary of Defense. View in a meeting room of Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, standing at a microphone.
Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. Lieutenant A. L. Lane poses and smiles. Trophies on a table in the background. Commanding General of the 8th Infantry Sergeant W. F. Bissenden stands and smiles with the trophy. U.S. Corporal R. A. McAllister,Co 6th Engineers poses with a rifle. The U.S. Cavalry team with the trophy. The U.S. infantry team poses. Chief of the infantry Major General R. H. Allen arrives and congratulates the team members. Chief of staff of the United States Army Major General Charles Pelot Summerall congratulates the captains of the teams.
Tests to evaluate and improve the performance of the BQM-34 Firebee drone's drogue and mid-air retrieval system (MARS). Aerial view of a CH-53 helicopter in flight. with MARS equipment deployed. A Teledyne Ryan BQM-34 F Firebee drone descending by main parachute as small striped drogue chute trails high above. The CH-53 snags the drone's engagement chute and the main chute releases and flies away. The CH-53 tows the suspended drone.
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